Part 1

Question 1

How are plant cells and animal cells similar?

Answer 1

Animal cells and plant cells are similar in that they each have a nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and vacuoles.

Question 2

How are plant cells and animal cells different?

Answer 2

Animal cells and plant cells are different in that plant cells have cell walls and chloroplasts and animal cells do not.

Question 3

What is the smallest part of a living thing that can carry out all the life processes and functions?

Answer 3

A cell is the smallest part of a living thing that can carry out all the life processes and functions.

Question 4

What is the job of a cell membrane?

Answer 4

The membrane holds the cell together. It controls the materials that enter and exits the cell.

Question 5

What is the job of a cell wall?

Answer 5

The cell wall is a rigid structure that surrounds the plant cell.

Question 6

What is the job of the nucleus?

Answer 6

The nucleus is the cell’s control center. It directs everything the cell does.

Question 7

What is the job of the vacuoles?

Answer 7

Vacuoles are storage spaces in the cell that stores food, water and wastes.

Question 8

What is the job of chloroplasts?

Answer 8

Chloroplasts are the cell parts that contain chlorophyll

Question 9

Draw a picture of a plant cell and label all the parts. (nucleus, vacuole, cytoplasm, cell membrane, chloroplast and cell wall)

Answer 9

Question 10

Draw a picture of an animal cell and label all of its parts. (Nucleus, vacuole, cytoplasm and plasm membrane)

Answer 10

Question 11

What are the characteristics of a plant?

Answer 11

All plants contain chlorophyll, which enables them to make their own food.

Question 12

What are the characteristics of an animal?

Answer 12

Animals cannot make their own food, they are all made of many cells, and they are able to move from place to place.

Question 13

What two groups are plants divided into?

Answer 13

Plants can be classified as vascular or non-vascular.

Question 14

How is the animal group first divided?

Answer 14

Animals are classified by either being vertebrates or invertebrates.

Question 15

What structure helps to classify a plant as vascular?

Answer 15

Vascular plants have stems, roots and leaves with tube-like structures that carry food and water.

Question 16

What is xylem?

Answer 16

Xylem carries water and food from the roots to the leaves.

Question 17

What is phloem?

Answer 17

Phloem carries food from the leaves to the other parts of the plant.

Question 18

Give examples of vascular plants.

Answer 18

Flowers, grasses, trees, ferns and bushes are vascular plants.

Question 19

Give three examples of non-vascular plants.

Answer 19

Hornworts, mosses and liverworts are all non-vascular plants.

Question 20

How is the vertebrate group next divided?

Answer 20

Vertebrates are divided into mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds.

Question 21

How is the invertebrate group next divided?

Answer 21

Invertebrates are divided into sponges, cnidarians, (string cells) annelids (worms), mollusks (soft-bodied), echinoderms (spiny-skinned) and arthropods.

Question 22

What two parts do a vascular plant have that a nonvascular plant does not?

Answer 22

Vascular plants have xylem and phloem.

Question 23

What does chlorophyll do for a plant?

Answer 23

Chlorophyll traps the sun’s energy for making food.

Question 24

What two things does a plant need to be considered a vascular plant?

Answer 24

Xylem and Phloem

Question 25

An animal with no backbone is called an _____________?

Answer 25

Invertebrate

Question 26

An animal with a backbone is called an ______________?

Answer 26

Vertebrate

Question 27

What three things do plant cells have that animal cells don’t have?

Answer 27

Chloroplasts, Cell Wall and Chlorophyll

Question 28

The _______________ of the cell is like the teacher of a classroom.

Answer 28

Nucleus

Question 29

What are the characteristics of a tree?

Answer 29

Vascular, flower, seeds, xylem, phloem

Question 30

What are the kinds of plants that have tubes for carrying food and water?

Answer 30

Vascular

Question 31

A _______________ is the basic structural unit of all living things.

Answer 31

Cell

Question 32

What do chloroplasts do besides make plants green?

Answer 32

Hold chlorophyll to make food

Question 33

What part of the cell controls what comes in and leaves the cell?

Answer 33

Cell membrane

Question 34

Name two nonvascular plants

Answer 34

Moss, algae

Question 35

What is the part of the plant cell that surrounds it and gives it support?

Answer 35

Cell Wall

Question 36

What is the part of the cell that controls its functions?

Answer 36

Nucleus

Question 37

What fills the empty space inside a cell?

Answer 37

Cytoplasm

Question 38

What is the vertebrate in this picture?

Answer 38

Snake

Question 39

What is the invertebrate in this picture?

Answer 39

Snail